EP4372637A1 - Système et procédé associé pour attribuer un impact environnemental à des projets d'excavation de masse - Google Patents

Système et procédé associé pour attribuer un impact environnemental à des projets d'excavation de masse Download PDF

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EP4372637A1
EP4372637A1 EP22208203.4A EP22208203A EP4372637A1 EP 4372637 A1 EP4372637 A1 EP 4372637A1 EP 22208203 A EP22208203 A EP 22208203A EP 4372637 A1 EP4372637 A1 EP 4372637A1
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  • the disclosure relates generally to a mass excavation projects.
  • the disclosure relates to a system and method therein for assigning an environmental impact to mass excavation projects utilizing an excavation site, wherein the excavation site engage one or more loading assets and one or more transporting assets.
  • the disclosure also relates to computer program products and storage mediums for performing the method.
  • a large amount of excavated material at one or more excavation sites are normally loaded onto transporting assets, e.g. trucks, haulers, or other material transport vehicles, by loading assets, e.g. excavators, wheel loaders, material handlers, cranes or other working machines/vehicles, engaged by and operating at the one or more excavations sites.
  • assets e.g. excavators, wheel loaders, material handlers, cranes or other working machines/vehicles
  • the load-out material from the one or more excavations sites is then typically transported by the engaged transporting assets towards an assigned destination site, such as, for example, a landfill, dump site or a specific material depot.
  • Landfills or dump sites are normally for storage, e.g.
  • load-out material that may comprise hazardous and/or contaminated material may need to be transported to such specific depots to be processed in a specific manner; this, in order to ensure compliance with certain laws, regulations or environmental requirements when handling these type of materials.
  • a computer-implemented method performed by a system for an assigning environmental impact to mass excavation projects utilizing an excavation site is described.
  • the excavation site engage one or more loading assets and one or more transporting assets.
  • the method comprise obtaining a daily operating time of the one or more loading assets at the excavation site based on the time between a first daily registered transport of excavated material load away from the excavation site and a last daily registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets.
  • the method comprise determining at least one first environmental impact for the one or more loading assets based on the obtained daily operating time and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more loading assets.
  • the method comprise obtaining, a distance to a target depositing site for each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets.
  • the method also comprise determining at least one second environmental impact for the one or more transporting assets based on the obtained distances and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more transporting assets.
  • the method comprise assigning at least part of the determined first and second environmental impact to one or more of the mass excavation projects.
  • the first aspect of the disclosure may seek to enable an improved management of a mass excavation project by enabling a fair assessment of its environmental impact.
  • a technical benefit is an agnostic and simple solution as presented above that do not require a complex and time-consuming collection of operational information from large amount of assets and operators, or different configuration setups to be performed by asset manufacturers, to obtain a fair assessment of a mass excavation project's environmental impact.
  • the at least part of the determined first and second environmental impact may be assigned to one or more of the mass excavation projects based on an assigned utilization share of the excavation site to each respective mass excavation project.
  • a technical benefit may include that environmental impacts may be assigned to different mass excavation projects utilizing the same excavation site.
  • the distance may be obtained based on a predetermined distance associated with the target depositing site assigned to each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets.
  • a technical benefit may include using the known distance to the assigned target deposition site to determine the at least one second environmental impact for the one or more transporting assets.
  • the distance may be obtained based on location data provided by each of the one or more transporting assets.
  • a technical benefit may include that the transporting assets may be more flexibly assigned to different mass excavation projects and/or excavation sites without negatively affecting the determination of the environmental impact of the different mass excavation projects. For example, after unloading the excavated material at the target depositing site from a first excavation site of a first mass excavation project, the transport assets may proceed to another excavation site of a second mass excavation project without this affecting the determination of the environmental impact of the first mass excavation project.
  • the environmental impact may be represented by a carbon-dioxide, CO 2 , or carbon-dioxide equivalent, CO 2 e, indicator or value.
  • a technical benefit may include that a well-defined and commonly relatable measurement of the environmental impact may be established and assigned to the mass excavation projects.
  • the method may further comprise providing, to a user application, information indicating the environmental impact assigned to a mass excavation project upon receiving a request from the user application.
  • a technical benefit may include that a manager of a mass excavation project may be notified about the environmental impact of the mass excavation project or that a site manager of an excavation site may be informed about the environmental impact that has been assigned to different mass excavation projects utilizing the excavation site, etc.
  • a system for assigning an environmental impact to mass excavation projects utilizing an excavation site is described.
  • the excavation site engage one or more loading assets and one or more transporting assets.
  • the system comprises a processing circuitry and a memory.
  • the processing circuitry is configured to obtain a daily operating time of the one or more loading assets at the excavation site based on the time between a first daily registered transport of excavated material load away from the excavation site and a last daily registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets, determine at least one first environmental impact for the one or more loading assets based on the obtained daily operating time and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more loading assets, obtain a distance to a target depositing site for each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets, determine at least one second environmental impact for the one or more transporting assets based on the obtained distances and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more transporting assets, and assign at least part of the determined first and second environmental impact to one or more of the mass excavation projects.
  • the processing circuitry may further be configured to assign the determined first and second environmental impact values based on an assigned utilization share of the excavation site to each respective mass excavation project.
  • the processing circuitry may further be configured to obtain the distance based on a predetermined distance associated with the target depositing site assigned to each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site by the one or more transporting assets.
  • the processing circuitry may further be configured to obtain the distance based on location data provided by each of the one or more transporting assets.
  • the environmental impact may be represented by a carbon-dioxide, CO 2 , or carbon-dioxide equivalent, CO 2 e, indicator or value.
  • the processing circuitry may further be configured to provide, to a user application, information indicating the environmental impact assigned to a mass excavation project upon receiving a request from the user application. Effects and advantages of this second aspect is to a large extent analogous to those described above in connection with the first aspect.
  • a computer program product comprising program code means for performing the steps of the methods described above when said program is run on a processing circuitry of a network system or a processing circuitry of a user device, respectively, is described.
  • a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions, which when executed on a processing circuitry of a network system or on a processing circuitry of a user device, cause the processing circuitry to perform the methods described above is described. Effects and advantages of the third and fourth aspects are to a large extent analogous to those described above in connection with the first and second aspect.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a communication system 10 in which the system 100 for assigning an environmental impact to mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 utilizing an excavation site S 1 , S 2 , according to embodiments described herein may be implemented.
  • the system 100 may be implemented by one or more centrally located and/or distributed network units, such as, e.g. online data processing server(s), configured to manage the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 .
  • the system 100 may also form part of a cloud service configured to manage the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 .
  • the system 100 may be configured to communicate with and provide information to one or more user terminals 101, such as, computers, wireless communication devices, etc.
  • the system 100 may be connected to and configured to wirelessly communicate via a wireless communications network 110, wherein the wireless communications network 110 may comprise one or more access points and/or radio base stations 120, 130 providing wireless communication access to wireless communications enabled devices.
  • excavation sites S 1 , S 2 that may be utilized by the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 is illustrated.
  • Each excavation site S 1 , S 2 may engage one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 and one or more transport assets 141, 151, 161.
  • Each of the loading assets 140, 150, 160 may be any form of vehicle arranged to haul or load excavated material onto the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161, such as, an excavator, a loader, a bulldozer, etc.
  • each of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 may be any form of vehicle arranged to carry and transport excavated material from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 , such as, e.g.
  • each of the loading assets 140, 150, 160 and the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 may be made by different manufacturers and operated by different operators, each implementing their own proprietary on-board/off-board systems, devices, and applications.
  • each of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 may comprise a wireless communications enabled device (not shown) that is able to communicate wirelessly within the communication system 10 as shown in FIG. 1 .
  • the wireless communications enabled device may be embedded in an on-board communication system of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the wireless communications enabled device may be operated by the driver of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the wireless communications enabled device may, for example, be a mobile device or user terminal, such as, a mobile, cellular or smart phone or tablet, being capable of wireless communications with the system 100 via the wireless communications network 110.
  • each of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 may, in some embodiments, comprise a Global Positing System, GPS, receiver or similar configured to receive the location of the transporting asset 141, 151, 161 from a GPS system 170.
  • a digital load receipt for the transporting asset 141, 151, 161 may be generated, for example, by the system 100. This may, for example, be performed in response to receiving information from the wireless communications enabled device comprised in the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 or from an on-site load check-out system implemented at the excavation site S 1 , S 2 .
  • This information may indicate that the transporting asset 141, 151, 161 has been loaded with excavated material and is about to transport the excavated material away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 .
  • the digital load receipt may register the transport of the excavated material by the transporting asset 141, 151, 161 and assign a target depositing site T 1 , T 2 for the transporting asset 141, 151, 161.
  • the system 100 may connect each digital load receipt with one of the available target depositing sites T 1 , T 2 , which then will direct the driver of the transporting asset 141, 151, 161 to the assigned target depositing site T 1 , T 2 .
  • the system 100 may comprise and provide information, e.g. in the digital load receipt, indicating the distance to each of the available target depositing sites T 1 , T 2 .
  • an agnostic and simple solution solely based on the information available by the digital load receipts of the transporting asset 141, 151, 161, is achieved, which enables a fair assessment of a mass excavation project's environmental impact and thus improves the management of mass excavation projects.
  • FIG. 2 shows an example of excavation sites S 1 , S 2 of mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 , respectively.
  • possible routes of different transporting assets 141, 151, 161 from the excavation sites S 1 , S 2 to target depositing sites T 1 , T 2 are also shown.
  • the transporting asset 141 is currently carrying a load from the excavation site S 2 to its assigned target depositing site T 1 located at a distance d 141 .
  • the transporting asset 151 is currently carrying a load from the excavation site S 1 to its assigned target depositing site T 1 located at a distance d 151
  • the transporting asset 161 is currently carrying a load from the excavation site S 1 to its assigned target depositing site T 2 located at a distance d 151
  • Each of the excavation sites S 1 , S 2 may engage a number of different loading assets, such as, e.g. the loading assets 140, 150, 160 at excavation site S 1 .
  • Each of the transporting assets 141, 151, 161 and the loading assets 140, 150, 160 may be of different manufacturers or OEMs, and be operated by different operators or operating fleet companies.
  • the transporting assets 141 and the loading assets 140, 150 may be operated by one fleet operator 151, 161
  • the transporting assets 151, 161 and the loading assets 160 may be operated by another fleet operator 151, 161.
  • each of the transporting assets 141, 151, 161 and the loading assets 140, 150, 160 may operate at or from one of the excavation sites S 1 , S 2 for a part of a work day or work week, and then switch to operate at or from another one of the excavation sites S 1 , S 2 for the remainder of the work day or work week.
  • This means that each of the transporting assets 141, 151, 161 and the loading assets 140, 150, 160 may work on several different mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 at different points in time.
  • mass excavation project may be associated with any number or plurality of different transporting assets and/or any number or plurality of different destination sites.
  • FIG. 3 is an illustrated example of actions, steps or operations which may be performed by the system 100 described above with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • the method may comprise the following actions, steps or operations.
  • the system 100 obtains a daily operating time t 1 of the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 at the excavation site S 1 , S 2 based on the time between a first daily registered transport of excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 and a last daily registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161. This means that as the system 100 is notified, e.g.
  • the system 100 may start a daily operating time t 1 for the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 at the excavation site S 1 . This may be perform simultaneously as the system 100 generates the load receipt for the transporting asset 151 and in doing so, obtains a time-stamp of the first daily load-out from the excavation site S 1 . Furthermore, this also means that as the system 100 is notified, e.g.
  • the system 100 may stop the daily operating time t 1 for the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 at the excavation site S 1 . This may be perform simultaneously as the system 100 generates the load receipt for the transporting asset 161 and in doing so obtains a time-stamp of the last daily load-out from the excavation site S 1 .
  • the system 100 determine at least one first environmental impact E 1 for the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 based on the obtained daily operating time t 1 and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160.
  • This daily fuel consumption may then be used to determine a first environmental impact E 1 , such as, e.g. a CO 2 -footprint, of the total daily activity of the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 at the excavation site S 1 .
  • the environmental impact E 1 is represented by a carbon-dioxide, CO 2 , or carbon-dioxide equivalent, CO 2 e, indicator or value.
  • the system 100 also obtains a distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 to a target depositing site T 1 , T 2 for each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161. This means that as the system 100 is notified, e.g.
  • the system 100 may register the distance d 151 to the target depositing site T 1 assigned to the transporting asset 151 for the load-out. This may be perform simultaneously as the system 100 generates the load receipt for the transporting asset 151 and in doing so, assigns a target depositing site T 1 of the load-out by the transporting asset 151 from the excavation site S 1 .
  • the distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 may be obtained based on a predetermined distance associated with the target depositing site T 1 , T 2 assigned to each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161. This means, for example, that the system 100 may have access to information indicating the distance to each target depositing site T 1 , T 2 from each excavation site S 1 , S 2 .
  • the distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 may be obtained based on location data provided by each of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the system 100 may receive location data, such as, geographical positioning system, GPS, data or position data obtained via the wireless communications network 110 in the communications system 10.
  • location data such as, geographical positioning system, GPS, data or position data obtained via the wireless communications network 110 in the communications system 10.
  • the system 100 may determine when a transporting asset 141, 151, 161 has switched from transporting loads from the excavation site S 1 to transporting loads from the excavation site S 2 , and thus is able to obtain more accurate distance data for the transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • GPS tracking or similar may be used to report transport missions in real time to the system 100, which e.g. may include cloud enabling advanced analytics, to conclude if the reported route of a transporting asset 141, 151, 161 is bound to a specific context, e.g. one or more of the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 . If the route is connected to one or more of the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 , the system100 may use a standard consumption/km, do the calculation of transport mission consumption/emission, and store it associated with one or more of the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 .
  • Action 304 After obtaining each distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 for each of the one or more transporting asset 141, 151, 161 for the excavation site S 1 , S 2 in Action 303, the system 100 determines at least one second environmental impact E 2 for the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 based on the obtained distances d 141 , d 151 , d 161 and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the system 100 may use the obtained distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 for each of the one or more transporting asset 141, 151, 161 for the excavation site S 1 , S 2 and an average fuel consumption per hour for the one or more transporting asset 141, 151, 161 in order to determine a daily fuel consumption for the load-outs from the excavation site S 1 .
  • This daily fuel consumption may then be used to determine a second environmental impact E 2 , such as, e.g. a CO 2 -footprint, of the total transport activity of the one or more transporting asset 141, 151, 161 from the excavation site S 1 .
  • the environmental impact E 2 is represented by a carbon-dioxide, CO 2 , or carbon-dioxide equivalent, CO 2 e, indicator or value.
  • the system 100 assigns at least part of the determined first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 to one or more of the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 .
  • the system 100 may assign the first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 to the mass excavation project P 1 that utilizes the excavation site S 1 .
  • the system 100 may assign parts of the first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 based on an assigned utilization share of the excavation site S 1 , S 2 to each respective mass excavation project P 1 , P 2 .
  • the system 100 may assign part of the first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 determine for each the excavation site S 1 , S 2 to several different mass excavation projects, e.g. mass excavation projects P 1 and P 2 , that utilizes the excavation sites S 1, S 2 .
  • mass excavation projects P 1 and P 2 may share the excavation site S 1 at a 50/50 ratio and the excavation site S 2 at a 60/40 ratio, hence the first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 be divided between the mass excavation projects P 1 and P 2 according to the same utilization ratios.
  • the system 100 may provide to a user application, information indicating the environmental impact assigned to a mass excavation project P 1 , P 2 upon receiving a request from the user application.
  • the system 100 may, automatically or upon request from one or more user terminals 101, provide the environmental impact information, e.g. at least parts of the determined first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 , assigned to a mass excavation project P 1 , P 2 to a user application in the one or more user terminals 101, in order for the environmental impact information to be displayed to a user of the one or more user terminals 101.
  • the system 100 may do emission reporting upon request, in real time or periodically, through different channels to the users, e.g.
  • system 100 is able of providing a customer perspective instead of a fleet or OEM perspective, since it has the capability to use the emission impact from several different asset and compiling them into environmental impact figures or quantities that may be used to give a user a view of a project, such as, e.g. a building, a road or other types of projects.
  • FIG 4 shows a schematic block diagram of embodiments of the system 100.
  • the embodiments of the system 100 described herein may be considered as independent examples, or may be considered in any combination with each other to describe non-limiting examples.
  • known conventional features of a system 100 such as, for example, a connection to the mains, network connections (e.g.
  • the system 100 may comprise one or more centrally located or distributed network unit(s), wherein the system 100 and the one or more network unit(s) may comprise a processing circuitry 410 and a memory 420. It should also be noted that some or all of the functionality described in the examples above as being performed by the system 100 may be provided by the processing circuitry 410 executing instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, such as, the memory 420 shown in FIG. 4 .
  • the processing circuitry 410 may also comprise an obtaining module 411, a determining module 412, an assigning module 413, and a providing module 414, each responsible for providing its functionality to support the examples described herein.
  • the system 100 or processing circuitry 410 is configured to, or may comprise the obtaining module 411 configured to, obtain a daily operating time t 1 of the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 at the excavation site S 1 , S 2 based on the time between a first daily registered transport of excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 and a last daily registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • system 100 or processing circuitry 410 is also configured to, or may comprise the determining module 412 configured to, determine at least one first environmental impact E 1 for the one or more loading assets 140, 150, 160 based on the obtained daily operating time t 1 and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more loading assets 140; 150, 160.
  • the system 100 or processing circuitry 410 is configured to, or may comprise the obtaining module 411 configured to, obtain a distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 to a target depositing site T 1 , T 2 for each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 ; S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • system 100 or processing circuitry 410 is configured to, or may comprise the determining module 412 configured to, determine at least one second environmental impact E 2 for the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161 based on the obtained distances d 141 , d 151 , d 161 and at least one fuel or energy consumption rate of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the system 100 or processing circuitry 410 is also configured to, or may comprise the assigning module 413 configured to, assign at least part of the determined first and second environmental impact E 1 , E 2 to one or more of the mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 .
  • the system 100 or processing circuitry 410 may be configured to, or may comprise the assigning module 413 configured to, assign the determined first and second environmental impact values E 1 , E 2 based on an assigned utilization share of the excavation site S 1 , S 2 to each respective mass excavation project P 1 , P 2 .
  • the network system 100 or processing circuitry 410 may be configured to, or may comprise the obtaining module 411 configured to, obtain the distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 based on a predetermined distance associated with the target depositing site T 1 , T 2 assigned to each registered transport of an excavated material load away from the excavation site S 1 , S 2 by the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the network system 100 or processing circuitry 410 may be configured to, or may comprise the obtaining module 411 configured to, obtain the distance d 141 , d 151 , d 161 based on location data provided by each of the one or more transporting assets 141, 151, 161.
  • the environmental impact E 1 , E 2 may be represented by a carbon-dioxide, CO 2 , or carbon-dioxide equivalent, CO 2 e, indicator or value.
  • the network system 100 or processing circuitry 410 may be configured to, or may comprise the providing module 512 configured to, provide, to a user application, information indicating the environmental impact E 1 , E 2 assigned to a mass excavation project P 1 , P 2 upon receiving a request from the user application.
  • the embodiments for assigning an environmental impact to mass excavation projects P 1 , P 2 utilizing an excavation site S 1 , S 2 described above may be implemented through one or more processors, such as the processing circuitry 410 in the network system 100 depicted in FIG. 4 , together with computer program code for performing the functions and actions of the examples herein.
  • the program code mentioned above may also be provided as a computer program product, for instance in the form of a data carrier carrying computer program code or code means for performing the examples herein when being loaded into the processing circuitry 410 in the system 100.
  • the computer program code may e.g. be provided as pure program code in the network system 100 or on a server and downloaded to the system 100.
  • modules of the system 100 may in some examples be implemented as computer programs stored in memory, e.g. in the memory modules 420 in FIG. 4 , for execution by processors or processing modules, e.g. the processing circuitry 410 of FIG. 4 .
  • processors or processing modules e.g. the processing circuitry 410 of FIG. 4 .
  • the processing circuitry 410 and the memory 620 described above may refer to a combination of analog and digital circuits, and/or one or more processors configured with software and/or firmware, e.g. stored in a memory, that when executed by the one or more processors such as the processing circuitry 410 perform as described above.
  • processors may be included in a single application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), or several processors and various digital hardware may be distributed among several separate components, whether individually packaged or assembled into a system-on-a-chip (SoC).
  • ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
  • SoC system-on-a-chip
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a computer system 500 for implementing examples disclosed herein.
  • the computer system 500 is adapted to execute instructions from a computer-readable medium to perform these and/or any of the functions or processing described herein.
  • the computer system 500 may be connected (e.g., networked) to other machines in a LAN, an intranet, an extranet, or the Internet. While only a single device is illustrated, the computer system 500 may include any collection of devices that individually or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein.
  • any reference in the disclosure and/or claims to a computer system, computing system, computer device, computing device, control system, control unit, electronic control unit (ECU), processor device, etc. includes reference to one or more such devices to individually or jointly execute a set (or multiple sets) of instructions to perform any one or more of the methodologies discussed herein.
  • control system may include a single control unit or a plurality of control units connected or otherwise communicatively coupled to each other, such that any performed function may be distributed between the control units as desired.
  • such devices may communicate with each other or other devices by various system architectures, such as directly or via a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus, etc.
  • CAN Controller Area Network
  • the computer system 500 may comprise at least one computing device or electronic device capable of including firmware, hardware, and/or executing software instructions to implement the functionality described herein.
  • the computer system 500 may include a processor device 502 (may also be referred to as a control unit), a memory 504, and a system bus 506.
  • the computer system 500 may include at least one computing device having the processor device 502.
  • the system bus 506 provides an interface for system components including, but not limited to, the memory 504 and the processor device 502.
  • the processor device 502 may include any number of hardware components for conducting data or signal processing or for executing computer code stored in memory 504.
  • the processor device 502 may, for example, include a general-purpose processor, an application specific processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a circuit containing processing components, a group of distributed processing components, a group of distributed computers configured for processing, or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, or any combination thereof designed to perform the functions described herein.
  • the processor device may further include computer executable code that controls operation of the programmable device.
  • the system bus 506 may be any of several types of bus structures that may further interconnect to a memory bus (with or without a memory controller), a peripheral bus, and/or a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.
  • the memory 504 may be one or more devices for storing data and/or computer code for completing or facilitating methods described herein.
  • the memory 504 may include database components, object code components, script components, or other types of information structure for supporting the various activities herein. Any distributed or local memory device may be utilized with the systems and methods of this description.
  • the memory 504 may be communicably connected to the processor device 502 (e.g., via a circuit or any other wired, wireless, or network connection) and may include computer code for executing one or more processes described herein.
  • the memory 504 may include non-volatile memory 505 (e.g., read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), etc.), and volatile memory 510 (e.g., random-access memory (RAM)), or any other medium which can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of machine-executable instructions or data structures and which can be accessed by a computer or other machine with a processor device 502.
  • a basic input/output system (BIOS) 512 may be stored in the non-volatile memory 505 and can include the basic routines that help to transfer information between elements within the computer system 500.
  • BIOS basic input/output system
  • the computer system 500 may further include or be coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium such as the storage device 514, which may comprise, for example, an internal or external hard disk drive (HDD) (e.g., enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) or serial advanced technology attachment (SATA)), HDD (e.g., EIDE or SATA) for storage, flash memory, or the like.
  • HDD enhanced integrated drive electronics
  • SATA serial advanced technology attachment
  • the storage device 514 and other drives associated with computer-readable media and computer-usable media may provide non-volatile storage of data, data structures, computer-executable instructions, and the like.
  • a number of modules can be implemented as software and/or hard-coded in circuitry to implement the functionality described herein in whole or in part.
  • the modules may be stored in the storage device 514 and/or in the volatile memory 510, which may include an operating system 516 and/or one or more program modules 515. All or a portion of the examples disclosed herein may be implemented as a computer program product 520 stored on a transitory or non-transitory computer-usable or computer-readable storage medium (e.g., single medium or multiple media), such as the storage device 514, which includes complex programming instructions (e.g., complex computer-readable program code) to cause the processor device 502 to carry out the steps described herein.
  • the computer-readable program code can comprise software instructions for implementing the functionality of the examples described herein when executed by the processor device 502.
  • the processor device 502 may serve as a controller or control system for the computer system 500 that is to implement the functionality described herein.
  • the computer system 500 also may include an input device interface 522 (e.g., input device interface and/or output device interface).
  • the input device interface 522 may be configured to receive input and selections to be communicated to the computer system 500 when executing instructions, such as from a keyboard, mouse, touch-sensitive surface, etc.
  • Such input devices may be connected to the processor device 502 through the input device interface 522 coupled to the system bus 506 but can be connected through other interfaces such as a parallel port, an Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 1394 serial port, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port, an IR interface, and the like.
  • IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
  • USB Universal Serial Bus
  • the computer system 500 may include an output device interface 524 configured to forward output, such as to a display, a video display unit (e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)).
  • a video display unit e.g., a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a cathode ray tube (CRT)
  • the computer system 500 may also include a communications interface 526 suitable for communicating with a network as appropriate or desired.
  • control system comprising one or more control units configured to perform the method according to any of the examples described above is also provided.
  • Relative terms such as “below” or “above” or “upper” or “lower” or “horizontal” or “vertical” may be used herein to describe a relationship of one element to another element as illustrated in the Figures. It will be understood that these terms and those discussed above are intended to encompass different orientations of the device in addition to the orientation depicted in the Figures. It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being “connected” or “coupled” to another element, it can be directly connected or coupled to the other element, or intervening elements may be present. In contrast, when an element is referred to as being “directly connected” or “directly coupled” to another element, there are no intervening elements present.

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